Recognizing World Toilet Day with New WATSAN Project in Benin

Today is World Toilet Day. It may not be considered a polite dinner conversation topic, but ensuring access to clean water and sanitation facilities like latrines is one of the most important global public health issues. Thousands in the developing world, primarily...

Help Spread Awareness On World Toilet Day

November 19 is World Toilet Day, a day recognized by the UN to address a taboo subject – poop! Lack of improved sanitation is a serious problem, and the leading cause of infections globally. Sanitation and hygiene are critical to in the prevention of diarrhea...

Alpha Delta Lambda Sorority Raises Money for AWF

by Devlin Smith Earlier this year, members of the Alpha Delta Lambda sorority at Union College in Schenectady, New York, took a handmade well and bucket around campus to educate their classmates about the global water crisis. In the process, the members of the...

AWF’s Annual Got Water? Auction Now Underway

The African Well Fund’s 10th annual Got Water? online auction is running through Nov. 10. This year’s auction features signed items from celebrities including George Clooney, Travis Barker, Michelle Pfeiffer and Loudon Wainwright III; U2 memorabilia;...

NYC Marathon Runners Raising Money for AWF

By Sabina Sulat On Nov. 3, Kiho Chang, Sean Gorski and Nicolas Sagna will represent their employer, hedge fund Pharo Management LLC, and run in the ING New York City Marathon as the Pharo Team. In addition to training for the marathon, the team has also set up a...